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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:Now to the latest on that awful
child sex abuse
scandal at
Penn State University
, and signs tonight that more victims may be willing to come forward.
NBC
's
Peter Alexander
reports tonight from the
Penn State
campus.

PETER ALEXANDER reporting:With the
Penn State
child
sexual abuse
scandal growing, several lawyers tell
NBC News
more potential victims of
Jerry Sandusky
are now coming forward and beginning to share their stories of abuse, some reportedly dating back to the
1970s
.

Mr. BEN ANDREOZZI (Attorney for Victims):There's comfort in numbers.
And I
think that they now understand that we're not alone.

ALEXANDER:Ben Andreozzi
represents at least two alleged victims, one of them not included in the grand jury report.
Andreozzi
says that man has been told by authorities he is victim number 11.

Mr. ANDREOZZI:My client was
sexually assaulted
by Mr.
Sandusky
in the early '90s, and he was
sexually assaulted
on the grounds of
Penn State University
.

ALEXANDER:Also today
The New York Times
reports officials at
The Second Mile
,
Sandusky
's children's charity, discovered several years of documents missing. According to
The Times
, investigators are concerned those missing files may limit their ability to determine whether
Sandusky
used charity funds to recruit new victims or even buy their silence. Just weeks after then graduate assistant
Mike McQueary
witnessed
Sandusky
allegedly sexually assaulting a boy in the locker room shower in
2002
,
McQueary
joined
Sandusky
at an
Easter Seals
charity flag football game. Three months later
McQueary
showed up to support
Sandusky
's annual charity golf tournament benefiting
The Second Mile
.

Mr. JERRY SANDUSKY:Everything relative to
The Second Mile
has been past my wildest dreams.

ALEXANDER:McQueary
spoke briefly with
NBC News
today.

Mr. MIKE McQUEARY:I'm not going to go into detail about anything. But, you know, I think it's -- I think it's obvious I tried to
do the right thing
.

ALEXANDER:Penn State
students and alumni say they are trying to
do the right thing
as well, launching a fundraising effort to support the victims of abuse, so far having raised more than $400,000. Also tonight, the top Democrat on the
House Education Committee
is calling for a hearing on the child
sexual abuse
scandal right here at
Penn State
.
Brian
:

WILLIAMS:Peter Alexander
in
State College
,
Pennsylvania
, for us tonight.
Peter
, thanks.

A breakthrough in the investigation of Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky came from a random posting on the Internet, the New York Times reported Thursday.

Investigators with the Pennsylvania attorney general's office — who were already convinced Sandusky was a serial molester — were alerted to an Internet forum posting that mentioned a Penn Statefootball coach had kept silent about abuse he had witnessed years earlier, sources told the newspaper.

The posting, on a forum where people chatted about Penn State athletics, allowed them to draw up a list of coaches likely to have seen something, which in turn led them to Penn State's wide receivers coach Mike McQueary.

Investigators set up a meeting in a parking lot a little over a year ago, the newspaper reported, at which McQueary unburdened himself about having witnessed a 10-year-old boy being raped by Sandusky in 2002.

Sandusky, 67, is accused of abusing eight boys, some on campus, over 15 years.

Sandusky, giving his first public statement to NBC's Rock Center on Monday, acknowledged that he had "horsed around" with boys in the shower but insisted there was no sexual intent.

Meanwhile, ex-NFL player and former Nittany Lions star LaVar Arrington expressed fury about Sandusky's denials and failure to apologize to those affected by the scandal, CBS reported.

Speaking on his radio show, he said: "You know what I'm pissed off about? He didn't say he was sorry to those kids. He didn't say he was sorry to the kids at Penn State. He didn't say he was sorry to the players, he didn't say was sorry to me, [to] us."

Special commission
A lawyer said Wednesday that his client will testify that he was sexually abused by Sandusky, and Pennsylvania state lawmakers are starting to plan for a special commission that will examine the legal issues raised by the child sex-abuse scandal.

"I am appalled by the fact that Mr. Sandusky has elected to re-victimize these young men at a time when they should be healing," Harrisburg attorney Ben Andreozzi said in a statement released by his office. "He fully intends to testify that he was severely sexually assaulted by Mr. Sandusky."

Pennsylvania legislative leaders said they will set up a bipartisan, bicameral commission to consider changes to state law in the wake of the scandal. The plan was described as being in the planning stage, including meetings of leaders and their aides.

Topics are likely to include mandatory reporting of suspected abuse, and the legal definition of child abuse, said Senate Democratic spokeswoman Lisa Scullin.

Also Wednesday, Penn State campus police and their counterparts in State College said they had no record of McQueary reporting an alleged sexual assault by Jerry Sandusky on a 10-year-old boy in a campus shower.

The details ran counter to McQueary's claims in an email to former teammates and made available to The Associated Press this week.

McQueary, then a graduate assistant for the football team, wrote in the email that he had discussions with police about what he saw. In the email, McQueary did not specify which police department he spoke to.

State College borough police Chief Tom King said McQueary didn't make a report to his department.

Campus police referred questions on the Sandusky case to the university's public information office.

"At this point we have no record of any police report being filed in 2002" by McQueary in connection with the Sandusky case, university spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said, adding police searched their records Wednesday.

The football building is on university property, so campus police would have been the most likely to respond for a police call.

Mountz also noted the 23-page grand jury report was the state attorney general's summary of testimony, so it's unclear what McQueary's full testimony was.